I used a 6100 on a AM2 board back in 2007. I actually was able to play quake 3 based games reliably with the proprietary driver (UrbanTerror, Open Arena, tremulous, IoQuake3, and etc.). While I'm no stranger to tight budgets I'd recommend you grab a simple Geforce 8400 card as they have very superior performance over a 6100 and you can find them for about $20 if you look hard and are patient enough to wait for some of the good sales. If you're looking at using only FOSS drivers though you'll probably want to poke your nose around the nouveau driver wiki http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ for more information on what hardware is known to work best as well as how to properly set it up.
Good Luck! On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 11:38 AM, jbander <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been struggling for almost a half year trying to make ubuntu > work on my computer.I have a Via onboard video on my computer (no > support) and I've tried a Nvidia 6600gt and a matrox video board > nothing works very well. Any way I have decided to upgrade my board > and chip to a ASRock K8NF4G-SATA2 Socket 754 Micro ATX Motherboard w/ > 128MB nVidia Video – Refurbished and a new athlon 3200. then I can > save the money on keeping my memory and maybe fix it the cheapest way > possible. My main question is will the Geforce 6100 work well in linux > and comment anything you want on my Idea, money is a problem(I just > bought my toy for the year already) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri > Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rulesor > http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules or http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf)
